A Cretaceous Crime, a Workshop to Learn Scientific Skills
The following article describes the workshop “A Cretaceous Crime”, held during May and June 2016 at Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. The main purpose of this workshop was to introduce the use of basic scientific skills to children aged between eight and twel...
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Asociación de Docentes de Ciencias Biológicas de la Argentina
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaadbia/article/view/24534 |
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| Sumario: | The following article describes the workshop “A Cretaceous Crime”, held during May and June 2016 at Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. The main purpose of this workshop was to introduce the use of basic scientific skills to children aged between eight and twelve years old. Children were given fossil replicas of bones of two different dinosaurs, Carnota urussastrei and Amargasa uruscazaui, in order to introduce them into the work of a vertebrate paleontologist, teaching them to observe, classify, formulate and test hypotheses. The activity demonstrated that it was feasible to go beyond a strictly paleontological content, letting the students to become familiar with the processes needed to acquire such contents. Furthermore, several objectives regarding elementary education curricular design were accomplished. |
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